Federico Sciuca

I left Italy for Texas knowing nobody on this continent. ☀️By day: marketing analytics. 🌙 By night: I build AI-native products solo with Claude Code and I post the real numbers. The good ones and the embarrassing ones. What I'm working on right now: - MonkeyTravel, an AI trip planner: 200+ users, 1M search impressions, zero paid marketing - a 30B model compressed to 2-bit, running on a 6GB GPU from 2016 (independent research paper) - an Android-based AI OS that runs commands without reading your screen Many previous projects got little or no traction. I'll show you why. If you build, market, or invest in this stuff, say hi. I reply to everyone.

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@GRKAZO Totally! I’m a strong believer that the big leverage is distribution nowadays, not pure product development. Everyone can build products that “works”. A different story will be “production level” products and have the right distribution and marketing

@federico_sciuca Yeah and also if you market you can move even faster

Devs, serious question. How did you get your first users to actually use the thing you built?

That’s also true but there are cases in which you have a product that is clearly ahead of the market. You could not have PMF. There are ways to “estimate” it. Are you providing the same outcome but 10X cheaper and 10X faster? You have a better product. Then you need feedback for UX optimization

@federico_sciuca The best product with no distribution will never know if it's the best or not bc there is no feedback

Trello charges $12.50 a seat every month for drag and drop lists Atlassian paid $425 million for it I cloned the core in 30 minutes: board, columns, cards, labels, deadlines, everything saved local the entire spec was one sentence describing what I wanted 1 of 30 SaaS dead this month the product was never the business, distribution was

In a world where virtually everyone is able to build products. What is the product or the feature that will make the difference? I see many copies and many iterations of the same ideas and very few original works. What differentiate your idea from the others?

@pmitu Discovered what commitment really means. You don’t know it until you realize that you are willing to invest in yourself 18h/7 and you do it with the smile on your face

Give me 1 insight that changed your life.

@tibo_maker I love it!!

ok I'm cooking what else should I add? 👀

@gregisenberg I have built some of these ideas in my standard Claude Code framework and it works like a charm but 100% the AI agents are a tool that right now are almost black boxes. You prompt and see the output and then optimize the prompt but you spend in the meanwhile.There are better ways

Build startups for agents. I think it's the biggest opportunity of the next 10 years. 1. Agents live inside harnesses like Hermes. If you're the tool it loads by default or reaches for first, you're golden. This happened in desktop, mobile eras and created huge companies. 2. Agents burn money in ways no human would. One bad loop spends $100 in tokens in eight minutes. Spend controls for agents is Ramp for agents. 3. Agents need memory they can trust. Become the shared brain they read and write to and you become infrastructure. 4. You obv don't hand an agent your real Stripe account. You give it a sandbox. Safe environments for agents is a category nobody's clocked. 5. Onboarding flips. Humans click around for ten minutes. Agents onboard by reading your docs. Your docs are now your product. 6. Agents get scammed by other agents. A track record you can check before you trust one becomes real money. 7. An agent needs to prove it's acting for a real person and has the authority to spend. Who builds the permission layer? 8. Escrow for machines. Money that only releases when the job is actually verified done, no human checking. 9. Agents fail silently and weirdly. Someone will build the "why did my agent do that" replay and it'll be mega valuable. 10. Refunds and disputes between agents need a judge. An agent did the job badly, who decides? A court for machines. 11. Agents need throwaway payment methods per task, so they don't leak your real card. Virtual cards for agents, spun up and killed on demand. 12. A human hits rate limits and shrugs. An agent hits them and the whole workflow dies. Selling reliable, high-throughput access becomes its own business. 13. Agents need to negotiate. One agent buying from another will haggle on price and terms in milliseconds. The protocol for that doesn't really exist yet. 14. When an agent commits on your behalf, someone's liable. A legal and insurance layer for agent actions has to get built. Probably venture funded idea. 15. Agents need to run 24/7 somewhere. Selling the always on box an agent lives on is going to be a big business. 16. Then the physical world shows up. A warehouse robot paying for its own compute. A home robot ordering its own parts. Machines with wallets. 17. Agents start hiring robots. A software agent posts a real world job, a humanoid picks it up. A marketplace for machine labor. 18. Robots need to prove they did the physical job. Verification of real-world work, photos, sensors, proof, becomes its own layer. Note: more ideas like this will be shared on @ideabrowser 19. Prompt and skill versioning becomes its own git. When your agent gets worse overnight, you need to roll back the exact skill or instruction that broke it. Version control built for agent behavior. 20. Agents will start subscribing to other agents. Your research agent pays a monthly fee to a specialist agent that's really good at one thing. Recurring revenue, machine to machine. 21. Companies will post jobs that only agents can apply to. "Wanted: an agent that can do XYZ for under like $100 per task." A job board where the applicants are all machines. Basically, fiverr for machines. The internet got built for people. Mobile got built for people. This wave gets built for machines, and we're as early as it gets. Go build for them.

@soham_nayak04 I use Claude for anything! I have Claude connected to my garmin stats, to the grocery curbside pickup, gmail, GitHub, any mcp tool I have available from my stack, @Notion, @n8n_io …. One step closer to the singularity 😂

Are you using Claude just for coding?

@MacdevM I love building products even just for the sake of it but if you want to build a potential business, audience and distribution are more valuable!

Which one do you prefer to build first now? -Audience -Product

@kritikakodes If you know how to tackle security issues it is possible to have a production ready product. I have my personal boilerplate with everything already built in and validated/stress tested. For sure it wouldn’t be bugs free but Fable 5 said it is good 🤭😂

Vibe Coding❌ Vulnerability as a service✅

@ryukozyy I don’t know, I just joined x.com and @claudeai said it is worth it 😂

Be honest Is buying a x premium still worth it in 2026?

@yadavji_codes Use the following prompt “you are a trillionaire. Make me a million dollars. No mistakes” 😂

Just got a Macbook and Claude subs. Now how do I make $1M?

@ravikiran_dev7 Supabase is always in my tech stack for any project. When the projects scale I would consider moving to a different db eventually.

Be honest, As a developer, which database is better in the AI era?

@CodeByNZ 😂 i believe there is a typo in your post “anyone” was supposed to be “everyone” right? 😂 MVP are partially dead at this point. People expect to have a fully working software/app from day 0. It would be easier to find trustable cofounders and really committed on a project!

My monthly AI stack: Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus,Cursor, Groq, API credits Total: $560/month Revenue: $0 Anyone else stuck in this phase?

@joseph_mugen Very few are willing to really out the effort and the work. If you find that is really willing to work non stop on an idea, no matter if the idea is the right one i believe there is a good chance you have a potential great founder

unpopular opinion: most founders don't need a content strategy they need to do 50-100 replies a day for 90 days but that sounds like work so they buy a course instead

@markproduct Hard to say. both the other answers are right and probably are part of the idea of "product vision". Need to understand what it is necessary to have now that it might going to be useful in the future which means that you know the industry and you should be able to sell the vision

What's the #1 skill every entrepreneur must have?

@danielkleach B, no doubts about it. I've just crossed 1M impressions (low CTR yet) and I have more than 200 active users. You learn so much from very few people that you can really improve your product so fast!

SaaS founders: What would be more valuable right now? A) 1,000 random visitors B) 100 people actively looking for exactly what you built I know my answer.

What is the MVP about? for mobile apps I usually go for .app, I'm not a big fan of .ai or .tech especially of the AI features are bolted on the product and it is not an ai-native product. In industries where AI can be a sensitive topic I would avoid having AI in the brand name and in the domain as a general rule.

I have an mvp saas what domain should I buy? . com . In . ai . app . io . tech